Environmental watch
What's in the air, water, and ground around here.
Live environmental OSINT for your community, pulled from public federal feeds — the EPA, the USGS, and the National Weather Service. No account, no tracking; every number links back to its public source. Auto-refreshes about every 30 minutes.
🌎 Environmental watch
Live public data for Santa Cruz · updated 3 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
39GoodUS AQI
PM2.5 7μg/m³PM10 9μg/m³Ozone 48μg/m³NO₂ 4μg/m³
Water monitoring
No live streamgage nearby.
Active alerts
✓ No active weather alerts
Earthquakes · 30 days
M3.9strongest within 250 km
6 km NW of Pinnacles, CA
20 quakes ≥ M2.5
Sources: Open-Meteo Air Quality, USGS Water Services, National Weather Service, USGS Earthquake Catalog, EPA National Priorities List. All public, no personal data.
Air quality — full readout
US Air Quality Index 39 (Good). Observed Aug 15, 4:00 AM.
7.0 μg/m³PM2.5
9.2 μg/m³PM10
48.0 μg/m³Ozone
3.9 μg/m³NO₂
0.8 μg/m³SO₂
183.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Active weather alerts0
✓ No active National Weather Service alerts for this area.
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days20
M2.8↗M3.8↗M3.2↗M3.2↗M2.8↗
4 km N of San Leandro, CA
Aug 13, 4:07 PM · 88 km away
3 km N of San Leandro, CA
Aug 13, 3:30 PM · 87 km away
6 km NW of The Geysers, CA
Aug 12, 10:30 AM · 215 km away
6 km NW of The Geysers, CA
Aug 12, 10:28 AM · 216 km away
7 km NW of The Geysers, CA
Aug 11, 9:35 PM · 217 km away
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
99 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in CA of 116 ever listed.
Watkins-Johnson Co. (Stewart Division Plant)
Scotts Valley · NPL Site · 9 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What CA’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the CA energy dossier →Snapshot generated Aug 15, 11:57 AM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.